The Federal Republic of Lotanio is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Jordan Hykri with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.525 billion Lotenches are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Orange. The average income tax rate is 80.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lora economy, worth 240 trillion Mitars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,075 Mitars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in Lotanio's offices, government ministers claim to ride dragons to work, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lotanio's national animal is the Borneo Orangutan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orangutanism.

Lotanio is ranked 256,423^rd in the world and 52^nd in One big Island for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 43.9 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.